We must opt for a green recovery so that a lesson we have learnt from the most elementary of living things doesn’t go in vain The Great Lockdown period around the world has given rise to a new environmental optimism.
As humankind with its fossil fuel burning cars, trains and planes stayed home, the air got clearer, the water a tad bit cleaner, and all other living beings leaned in to reclaim some lost space.
As with everything in this Anthropocene Age, the truth is more nuanced. Let’s start with the widespread belief that “wet markets" are the origin of all zoonotic disease—a term that refers to the spread of disease from animals to humans.